Globe: pins need labels / popup dialog

[ebidel]

There's no way for users to link off to the event. Alternatively, the auto-complete should complete on the results, not locations no?

[brendankenny]

Yes, I'm working on this now.

I don't think autocomplete should complete on the results...for example, say you were searching in Mountain View and there was an event in Palo Alto, how would know to search for Palo Alto?

Right now I'm thinking autocomplete takes you to that location on the globe (done) where you can see the nearby events and click on them to get the popup dialog (this bug).

That's still not the most helpful, though, so maybe when you do search for a place, when the globe moves there a card should also pop up listing the closest events?

[ebidel]

Sounds reasonable to me. People will search for a city, we direct them to the closest results.

[monicabagagem]

What we had talked about was:

Offsite page:
Copy for map: "Find an I/O Extended event near you"
CTAs:

1. Search box on the right top side "Search for a location"
2. "Notify me about new events near me"
   Map: Displays several pins from registered events (it can be random pins
   too, no problem)

User Experience:

1. User searches for location. Search box auto-completes with search.
2. Results (full page-takeover) show closest event to the user's search.
   "This is the closest match to your search."
   Example:
   -- User searches for SF. If there are events in SF we show the most central
   one. If there isn't and the closest is Palo Alto, we show Palo Alto.

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[ebidel]

Here's what the implementation is settling on:

• The globe shows actual pins for every location.
• as users search, gmaps auto completes city names. They select one.
• The globe spins to the location lat/lng something
• A results list shows all events within 50mi of the user's search. This takes care of the clustering problem and doesn't require an additional 2d map.
• User's will also be able to click a pin on the map and see the details card for it.

@brendankenny is also going add support for moving the globe with touch and possibly
hovering over pins shows event results too. Those are nice to haves though.

Note:

"Notify me about new events near me"

Isn't possible until we have sign-in + notifications.

[monicabagagem]

"Notify me about new events near me" Isn't possible until we have sign-in + notifications. ah ya, my bad, sent that without thinking! Looking forward to see the globe tonight